Acceptance is an enormous thing in everyone's life. While in school, you never want to be that kid always picked last. When you go to work every day, you don't go thinking, Hopefully today is the day when everyone realizes that they hate me! The same thing applies to the internet. When you put weeks or months into a project, skin, texture pack, or Youtube video, you want something back. It's the way we are as human beings. While we are working on our projects, we fantasize about how famous we are going to be. However, a problem arises. Each one of the 8,655,119 people who have bought Minecraft cannot all be famous.

Youtubers are deceiving. You may see a popular video (1 million+ views) on Youtube and think to yourself, I can make that quality of work. I'm going to be famous! Before thinking this, take a moment to glance at when the video was made and how many subscribers this person has. The same goes for PMC projects. Most of the time, someone who has gained popularity for Minecraft content started back when the game was still in Alpha/Beta stages. If you want to gain popularity, it takes time rather than a single thing (no matter how good that thing is).

But I digress. The purpose of this section is to tell you if popularity matters. The fact is, you have to determine that for yourself. Everyone wants acceptance. However, the comfortable level of acceptance differs for each person. For some people, three diamonds is enough where others feel they need millions of Youtube views. My advice is, don't do something for popularity, but rather because you enjoy it. And, take a moment every once in a while to look at the content others are producing as well. Leave them some feedback, and realize that there are millions of others who feel the same as you.

As a high estimate, there are probably around 600,000 total active members on PMC.
As a very low estimate, there are probably around 10,000,000 total people who have an interest in Minecraft projects.

Therefore, if you get 100 views on your project on PMC...

100/600,000 = x/10,000,000 -> x=1667

100/600,000 = y/7,000,000,000 -> y=1,166,667

...then the conditional probability is equivalent to getting 1667 views from the whole Minecraft community. A single diamond becomes multiplied by about 10.6.

...then the conditional probability is equivalent to getting 1,166,667 views from the entire world's population. A single diamond becomes multiplied by about 11,667.




Minecraft is an amazing game. It is full of limitless possibility and endless potential. Your mind is your limit. So, leave this blog with this. Have fun. It's not about the amount of views you get or diamonds you receive. Perspective is what matters in the end.